by Barbara | Nov 15, 2021 | Animals, Geese, Uncategorized
This is the longer text of my script which was broadcast on RTE Radio One, Sunday Miscellany on 14 November 2021. A link to the programme is here https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22029731/ Photo by Jan Rod It’s in November I hear them first. It begins as an echo...
by Barbara | Aug 11, 2019 | Animals, Cats
Ernest Hemingway said that “a cat has absolute emotional honesty; human beings, for one reason or another may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” And as someone who has lived with cats all her life, I think our Ernest is right. But I never really thought that...
by Barbara | Jun 22, 2016 | Animals, Cats
I recently found myself getting broody. Not for another baby – oh no – but for a little ball of madness that is most kittens. Around the same time the stress levels in the house were noticeably heightened due to Junior Cert and fifth year house exams. There was a...
by Barbara | Mar 6, 2016 | Animals, Cats, Uncategorized
I have little time for Mother’s Day, probably thanks to my anarchistic tendencies. If everyone is going one way, I will generally prefer to go the other. I also hate being told what to do, hence I couldn’t handle being in a book club. So when the world tells me...
by Barbara | Aug 1, 2014 | Animals, Cats
16 years is a long time to live with someone regardless of how many legs they have. In our house we live with as many four leggeds as with two leggeds and the bonds of love are strong. This week our oldest four legged – Simba died. He had been in decline for months...
by Barbara | Jun 14, 2013 | Animals, Cats
So after lots of hoopla and advance PR last night I sat down with my cuppa and bun, ready to be amazed and educated about ‘The Secret Life Of The Cat’ – a Horizon special on BBC2. Regular readers will know that while I don’t consider that I am (yet) in the Crazy Cat...
